Well here goes:frown2:
My Midlands is not the original, the first one was swapped out at about 30,000 miles. The tranny did not fail, but one of the axle seals froze. This happened while I was still up in Manitoba, middle of the winter, temp. was around -35F. I was motoring into the city, a 50 mile commute, and as I stopped at a traffic light, things did not sound good. So I went straight to the dealer, and the tech had a look under the car, and knew what the issue was. He drained the tranny, then flushed it, put in new seals, refilled it and all was fine. They still got me a new tranny, which between ordering it, and my schedule, ended up being about a month before the swap. The old tranny worked like nothing had ever happened. The new tranny was not a rebuild, but a brand new one.
Poco is an 03, and now has 105,000 miles on him, so that puts about 75,000 miles on his "new" tranny. It works like new, never had an issue with it. I don't abuse the tranny, no burn outs, no slamming through the gears, always rev match when down shifting. He IS driven hard every time he goes out.
Steve if I need a new tranny in the next little while, it's going to be your fault:lol:
Mark
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As far as I know, a transmission jinx is not contagious.
Of course if you replace it with another Midlands, it's still a Midlands. I like to think if (when?) mine goes TU I'll replace it with a Getrag but unless I'm feeling especially adventurous (and mechanically competent) I'll probably just go with another Midlands. After all, it works great, why mess with success? 
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