Counterweight for truck transmission shift lever

A counterweight engaged to a rearwardly pivotable gear shift lever of a truck transmission for maintained equilibrium, regardless of pivoted lever position, the shift lever having a predetermined length, having a pivot point at a lower end thereof, and having a center of gravity along the length thereof which defines lever equilibrium when the lever is vertically oriented over the pivot point, the lever pivoting rearwardly of vertical producing a specific moment when gear engagement is desired, the counterweight comprising an elongate structure of predefined mass which engages the lever at a location above the pivot point and extends perpendicularly forward of and a predetermined distance outwardly from the lever compromising the rearward moment of the pivoted lever, shifting the lever center of gravity forwardly into vertical alignment over the pivot point.