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Other thing to check is the route of the pipe to the slave cylinder, does it pass very close to the exhaust pipe / manifold. If it does this may be overheating the fluid. I ended up fitting a banjo type fitting to the slave cylinder to maximise the distance between the clutch fluid pipe and the exhaust pipe.

Good point about routing of the hose. It can easily happen that the hose gets close or contacts the exhaust causing failure.

But, the issue I was having was that the clutch would lose pressure after a period of time while just sitting in the garage after initial successful bleeding. No temperature effect.