Stator cover gasket, yay or nay?

[bored&stroked]

Anyone just run some rtv to seal up the stator cover or is the gasket required to seal it up correctly? Yamaha 701.

 

[long beach local]

I use rtv And a gasket then maybe reuse the gasket once ,maybe. When you get water under the cover it ruins the bendix and isnt good for the stator flywheel either.A new gasket and sealing up the starter with 1211 while assembling is my 2cents.