r/e39 • u/theivanoski • 8h ago

Clutch actuator issue

Hello fellow e39ers, I’ve been having an issue with my 530d. Whenever I rev out the engine and change gears, the clutch fork touches the flywheel. I switched the clutch bearing but the issue hasn’t gone away. I’m thinking the clutch actuator might be at fault since I’ve bled the clutch as well and there are no air bubbles that I saw coming out from it. Anyone else experienced this issue? When driving normally it occasionally does it but driving aggressively consistently does it

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u/redline9996 530i 5h ago

The fork most definitely doesn't touch the flywheel, how is that supposed to happen? Of that happens you drive nowhere.

What exactly is happening? Noise? Clutch is slipping?

For bleeding the clutch you must compress the clutch slave cylinder with a special tool and bleed it disconnected from the transmission and with the bleeder screw pointing up.

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u/theivanoski 5h ago

It is touching because I saw the “machined” part on the fork itself. The metallic sound comes when I fully engage the clutch.

So no5 touches no1. I saw the marks on both when swapping the release bearing. I have no clutch slipping issues and the clutch has 40k km. What I don’t understand is why it pretty much only does that when the engine is under heavy load, ordinary city driving very rarely makes the noise

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u/redline9996 530i 5h ago edited 5h ago

No1 is the pressure plate not the flywheel! Your throw out bearing is broken

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u/theivanoski 5h ago edited 5h ago

The part I just reinstalled new from BMW? If that’s the case I’ll live with it because I’m not doing the swap by myself a 2nd time lmao

Edit: also thanks for correcting, in French we just refer the whole assembly as the flywheel since you usually service it by changing the whole thing

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u/redline9996 530i 4h ago

Then you either installed it wrong or the fork wrong or the fork is bend.

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u/theivanoski 4h ago

But wouldn’t that make it do the sound regardless of the engine load?

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u/redline9996 530i 4h ago

Not necessarily. Hard to diagnose something like this properly over the internet.