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It means new regulator unless you carry a journeyman's card, and can find another good one to take apart.
Not only that, but depending on the year it may be RIVETED into the door so you will need to drill the old one out and find a new way to mount the new one. It took me a couple of frustrating hours just to figure out how to get the de-attached regulator OUT of the door. Oh, and everything pretty much has to be done by feel from a small slot in the door below the regulator as you can't really see what you are working on. And if you get this far without hanging yourself your door will inevitably whistle or leak air afterwords as it is hard to seal it all back up when you are done.
If you decide to undertake a fix, it is MOST important to find out WHY your worm gear stripped out or broke, or you will be doing it all again in a matter of weeks. There are small red plastic washers that go behind the regulator anchor points - probably you will not see them as they most likely have disintegrated long ago and are all in little pieces in the bottom of the door. Also, these anchor points travel in slots lined with white plastic tuning fork looking things, which also tend to degrade and break with time. I have absolutely no idea where to get these parts - when I did mine I had an old door to use for parts and assembly help.
I'm not tryin to pee on your parade, but I honestly spent time in the middle of the job trying to source a door that was the same color so I could just smash the old one with a sledge for good measure and be done with it. This would not be a quick Saturday morning coffee break fix.
Good luck
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