Can I run my 78 f-150 drums without the parking brake lever, or atleast with the lever but witout the parking brake cable?

yes

You can take the entire e-brake setup out. The only thing in my 9" drums are the shoes, wheel cylinder, adjuster rod and springs.

I was replacing thw wheel clyinder so everything came out, but I found that I needed to leave in the lever that pushes on the shoe or also the bracket thingy that goes from shoe to shoe wouldnt seat, it acually seates on the e-brake lever. but it looks like everything else is working fine

I was replacing thw wheel clyinder so everything came out, but I found that I needed to leave in the lever that pushes on the shoe or also the bracket thingy that goes from shoe to shoe wouldnt seat, it acually seates on the e-brake lever. but it looks like everything else is working fine

Interesting. I'm not sure why that would be, mine works fine and I don't have the cross-over bar or the lever.

yes, you can run them without any of hte brake crap, but, the self adjusters don't work correctly without them. Your way better off spending the $100 to add discs onto the axle.

unfortunatly i dont have 100 bucks right now, the brakes on my junkyard 9" were almost new so im going to run them untill I need to replace thema nd then go to disks.