i own a 1993 protege and its basiquely the same thing , i did my timing belt in about 3 hrs . the big pane was taking all the other belts out.
as for the timing belt itself just cut the old one out.
it was easy even tho i had access to a hoist but even then ....
YOU DO NOT NEED TO TAKE THE ENGINE OUT !!!!.
I also did a 626 with the dohc and it was even easyer , yes it is really tight but with some patience it can be done easily.
get yourslef a haines manual it tells you everything u kneed to know and its pretty straight foward.
take it from a guy whos a computer technician , its doable and a timing belt is like 50$ as opposed to the hundreds asked by mecanics . just consider yourself lucky that its not a honda , those are a real pane in the ass!!!!!
hope this helps
andre
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