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I get a lot of e mail asking "How Do I Repair The Ring In My Line Guide, It Came Out?
Well I'm sorry to have to tell you all this but it can't be replaced or reglued. 
I am amazed at how rough some anglers are on their rod guides. Anglers need to take into consideration when they are knocking the rods around in trunks and backs of trucks. That the guides have to be able to flex with the rods bend, therefore the guides get extra duty when they are being bounced and knocked about.
Sooner or later the shock rings are going to be loosened by being knocked around. Then the next time the rod and guides are flexed fighting a fish, "POP" goes the ring out from the guide frame.
Some anglers say that you can just super glue the ring back in place. NOT SO! They don't quite understand how the guide is produced to begin with. The shock ring is pressed in while the guide frame is hot, manufactures use a heated epoxy to help keep the ring in place, (there are facets much like in jewelry that hold the epoxy), once the guide frame cools and shrinks down some the ring is locked into place.
Super Glue is not water proof, like the epoxy the manufactures use, also Super Glue is not as flexible as the epoxy the manufactures use. There is only one solution to this problem. The guide has to be replaced. As a custom rod builder, I would recommend that the rod be taken to a competent repair shop and the guide be removed and replaced. But you came here to find out if you could fix it.
You would need to have some mechanical ability and be able to build or purchase, rod stands, a thread tension device, this is only to be able to turn your rod by hand. Then you need the following supplies. Thread that matches the thread colors on the rod, the proper size guide to replace the one that broke, razor blades, thread cutter, burnishing tool, and most important of all thread coating epoxy, (ie: Flex Coat High Build Epoxy) and more that I know I have forgotten.
Bottom line, if you don't already have the equipment and expertise to build or repair rods it is going to cost you more to do it yourself, than to have a qualified rod builder repair it for you.
I only charge the price of the guide, and my labor.