I don't think I have changed the brake fluid in any car in 35 years. Sounds like a good reason for some more tools. My chassis is so rusty, I probably should just buy new brakes from the lines out.
Wait till you have something like the 77 c-10 I had. One of my first cars, the first one that was (sort of) legal to drive on public roads, (oh yeah, it got 6 mpg going downhill with the engine off being pushed), the people who owned it before never did a single repair on it the whole time they owned it..... or at least that's what it seemed like. I think that thing would have been lucky if the oil had been changed once since it left the factory before I got it, and it sat for a year before I got it. Anyways, poor teenager, my dad telling me all the things I need to fix on it, me saying, "Yeah, sure, I'm gonna get it all done."
One day, driving around in Omaha, coming down a hill towards a stop sign, driving like any teenager does (too fast, and waiting until the last second to slam on the brakes when I get to the stop sign so that I can hit the gas just as hard after that when I leave it). Press on the brakes, it starts slowing down momentarily when suddenly....... I go right through the intersection into the side of an E-150 conversion van that an older couple was driving. Brake line had burst a few inches from the master cylinder. My first car accident and an important lesson. Always take care of all regular maintenance. The long term costs are SOOO much lower. You don't want to even imagine how much damage that Chevy did to the side of that Ford. Not fun totaling a brand new van. Even worse losing my truck..... I loved that bald tire having, gas guzzling, fire-breathing home to the noisiest 454 that ever left an oil slick down the freeway. I was this close to having enough money to replace the floor pan so I wouldn't have to worry about where I was putting my foot (oh yeah, that was a big hole in the floor).
Ahhh memories.... I want another old chevy pickup.... On the bright side, I could fill both of it's 20 gallon tanks for about half the cost of filling my Explorer's tank today. These days, every time I turn the key it costs ten bucks.