1988 Carb issues

I just replaced the auto transmission in my 1988 accord and upon first restart the car will not idle. I has been sitting for about 6 months while I replaced the trans, but was a daily driver prior to that. The car initially starts fine when cold, but shortly after startup starts running very rich and dies. Restart after this requires the throttle pedal to be held down. Engine will start after some cranking - but will not run under 2500 RPM and is obviously very rich. I've rebuild carbs before so I'm thinking about picking up a rebuild kit - just wondering if there could be other parts of the fuel control system that might be at fault.

I'm curious to hear if you ever figured this out I had an 89 accord that had auto choke problems from the day I bought it to the day i sold it

I purchased a rebuild kit and some gaskets and pulled the carb off. This was the original carb with 225K miles on it. After doing some additional online reading, I decided the rebuild was more than I wanted to take on and broke down and ordered a rebuilt carb. The car fired right up with the new carb and so far the only adjustment has been to back the idle down a bit - otherwise the car now runs great.