Weird things on my dash!

[jmbrodsky@domain.elided]

     OK so something weird happened to me on the way back from Phoenix this 
     morning.  Preface:
     
        I went to Phoenix yesterday about 1PM to go see YES, and Alan 
     Parsons Project Live at 8PM.  It wasn't that good of a show, so don't 
     spend the $45 ea. like I did, it's not worth more than $25ea.
     
     Anyway it was about 105 out and high humidity, read HOTTER THAN H*LL.  
     So it was like 75% humidity and I HAD to have the AC on.  Read: Heat 
     motor twice as hot as the flames of H*LL!  So it was pinging really 
     bad.  Stopped about 40 mi. out to get higher octane gas.  Remember I 
     backed my timing off to like 3.5 BTDC from the 11 or so that ran great 
     some weeks back?  Now it's pinging!  Anyway, I fill the top off with 
     92 on top of the 87 and it stops pinging, mostly.  So it's really hot 
     and I arrive in Phoenix and shut the motor off and I can hear the 
     pressure bleeding off in the radiator overflow tank and that's ok it's 
     only a 7lb cap.  I know, I do it because I'd rather it leak at the cap 
     that blow a hose!  So I come back about 1 hour later, trucks cooled 
     off (moderately from a zillion to 110F) and there is a huge puddle of 
     something that on my finger looks like oil.  Oil in the truck is 
     topped off, but I see drops off the springs under the PS pump.  PS 
     fluid is fine.  hmm.  That's weird thing number one.
     
     Weird thing number two:  With the motor as hot as it was, I drove back 
     this morning around 8AM, and it was running OK, but yesterday and 
     today I notice extraordinarily low oil pressure.  Anyway, it's not 
     clicking, so I keep going.  I have a case of sae40 just in 
     case,though.  Now about the same time I notice the WICKED low oil 
     pressure I notice the Transfer Case light flickering!  Doesn't appear 
     to be rhythmic, purely random.  Now, it happened this morning and I'm 
     dressed for work so I have yet to get under the truck, but I'm on my 
     way home pretty soon so I'll check it out.  Now do y'all think it's 
     something dumb like a pinched wire to ground making the TC light 
     flicker? OR is it something really cool, like the brake light?  Did IH 
     use the TC light to do more than one thing, like warn you of low oil 
     pressure?  Howard could this actually be the case?  WOW the 
     possibilities!
     
        OK, off to straighten my bumper so I can take first place at the 
     RMIHR.
     

     -Joel Brodsky

         '76 IHC Scout II 345/tf727 RE8000, Cibie40s, custom 
                rear tire rack, 6 different color body panels.
                Not much sport, all utility.
         '75 IHC Travelall 150 4wd 392/tf727 Hummer brush guard, 
                3/4T rear springs, Hella Rallye 2000s, Con-Ferr 5x7,
                Class IV hitches front and rear, 3" Exhaust.
                3rd Place, Tulare IH Western Regionals