Given the manifold location, can you even get to it with a hammer? That bish’ is totally obscured on these engines.
Yep, it’s an interesting sound lol. I just put a clip up in Flickr (sorry, I don’t have a YouTube account).
https://www.flickr.com/gp/153940533@N04/87M28L
The starter won’t be fun, but it’s a good time to replace the manifold and throttle body gaskets if they’ve never been done before. You’ll need E12 torx (99% sure) for the two starter bolts, and hopefully the alignment pin releases easier than it did for me (yes, I had the starter loose in my hands but didn’t replace it because it wasn’t acting up when I did the clutch).