Maybe, in order to see how the wind deflector is supposed to work, the best thing you could do without reference material is to find someone who is willing to show you a properly working 700 or 900 series sunroof in operation. You will see that there is a spring-loaded (approx. 12" long) metal arm on each side of the wind deflector. As the sunroof moves forward to close, the sunroof pushes the metal arms downward, thereby lowering the rear of the wind deflector until it goes under the sunroof, just before the sunroof closes completely.
Once I had a 700 series where the metal arms had rusted and broken loose. I could have found or fabricated new metal arms, but was short on time, and the car was not a museum piece, so I decided to improvise. I removed what was left of the metal arms and simply drilled two holes in the wind deflector, through the front of the sunroof frame and attached a self-tapping screw into each of the two holes. This secured the wind deflector to the sunroof frame. The sunroof worked fine, didn't leak and I never even noticed the lack of a wind deflector while driving with the sunroof open.
Of course, if the metal arms on your wind deflector are missing, you can replace them with ones in good condition from your local pick 'n pull yard.
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